[Board] Fwd: [postgis-devel] OGC compliant certified

[Paul Ramsey]

Hi Board,
Is there a place in our OGC MOU for OSGeo projects to get certified
and advertise their certification status without annual fees as OSGeo
projects?
P.


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From: Chris Hodgson <chodgson at refractions.net>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] OGC compliant certified
To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at postgis.refractions.net>


Ok, sorry, I was somewhat misinformed, and I should revise my earlier statement.

PostGIS WAS certified, and was to my knowledge the reference
implementation for Simple Features for SQL types and functions
profile.

Refractions has since decided that there is little value for the
company to continue to pay the annual licensing fees required by OGC
in order to maintain the right to advertise that PostGIS is certified.
Annual fees, per version of postgis, per version of specification,
based on the gross revenues of the "parent" company.

I can't help but wonder which other open source packages do continue
to pay these fees. I wonder if there is a role for OSGeo to play here,
as there is the potential to cap the overall licensing fees for a
single OGC member organization.

Regardless, the answer two your question is that both websites are
correct, as PostGIS previously was, and therefore "has been" certified
as compliant. But as the OpenGIS site is telling you, we are not
currently paying for the right to advertise that fact using the OGC's
trademarks.

Fun stuff.

Chris


Chris Hodgson wrote:
>
> Postgis is in fact certified, there is a scan of the signed certificate here:
>
> http://postgis.refractions.net/files/opengis-certification.png
>
> Chris
>
> masha_alessandro at libero.it wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>> In the Postgis  Home page it's wrote "PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been *certified as compliant* with the "Types and Functions" profile".
>> But when I open th OGC site and look for the Specification -->Simple Feature - SQL - Types and Functions - PostgreGIS/PostgreSQL, the OGC Spec doesn't appear in green (certified product) and isn't marked as compliant!
>> Anyone could give me some more information?
>> Is the OGC web sites updated!
>>
>> I need it for legal question.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> Alex
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